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ILO was mentioned here mostly in relation to its tribunal, ILO-AT. Articles below.

  • 09.09.11 Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: “The Free Software Movement is Building Support Within the Government of Brazil and Throughout Brazil”
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: Turkey’s Patents Trajectory on Bad TRIPS
  • 05.20.13 Links 20/5/2013: Plenty of Linux News, Google/Android Announcements
  • 06.15.13 Links 15/6/2013: IBM and KVM, KDE 4.11 Beta
  • 08.10.13 Links 10/8/2013: Debian Celebrates 20 Years, Android Blobs Debated
  • 01.26.14 Systematic Looting of Society Disguised as ‘Crisis’ (for Austerity/Privatisation) and Bogus ‘Charity’ as Solution
  • 06.15.14 Links 15/6/2014: News Catchup, Build-up for Another Iraq Invasion
  • 09.14.14 Links 14/9/2014: Eucalyptus Devoured
  • 10.31.14 The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
  • 12.07.14 Links 7/12/2014: New Linux Release, Marines and Prisoners on GNU/Linux
  • 02.14.15 Links 14/2/2015: Mageia 5 Beta 3 Released, TPP Imperialism
  • 03.23.15 The Royal Norwegian Department of Labour on the Right of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers to Strike
  • 03.24.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
  • 03.29.15 When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed
  • 04.03.15 The EPO’s Dutch Appeal Court Judgment Controversy: List of Political Interventions
  • 04.10.15 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
  • 04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
  • 05.25.15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
  • 06.08.15 Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity
  • 06.09.15 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
  • 06.24.15 Links 24/6/2015: Meizu MX4, Red Hat and Samsung Partner, Women in Open Source Awards
  • 09.22.15 The European Patent Office’s Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition’s Messages
  • 10.30.15 The International Labour Organisation Highlights Problems of Broader Dimensions at EPO
  • 11.03.15 EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster”
  • 11.09.15 European Federation of Public Service Unions Pressures Dutch Prime Minister to Take Action Against the EPO’s Violations
  • 11.18.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part II
  • 11.27.15 Blogger Who Wrote About the EPO’s Abuses Retires
  • 12.08.15 Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
  • 12.24.15 I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO’s Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
  • 01.10.16 How the EPO Imposes Secrecy Around Mock ‘Trials’ and What the EPO Calls ‘Violence’
  • 01.12.16 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
  • 01.16.16 Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP
  • 01.18.16 European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
  • 01.18.16 Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
  • 01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
  • 01.20.16 The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
  • 01.26.16 Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations
  • 01.28.16 Philip Cordery Dice que la Situación de la OEP es Bien Conocida por Todos, Lo Atestigua Numerosos Artículos de Prensa, Acciones Políticas, o Recomendaciones Administrativas
  • 01.31.16 Political Complaints About European Patent Office Abuses Keep Flooding in After Firing of Staff Representatives (Busting of Unions)
  • 02.06.16 Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour
  • 02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
  • 02.18.16 Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli’s Regime
  • 02.19.16 Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave
  • 03.05.16 Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli’s Circle
  • 03.10.16 The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
  • 03.19.16 International Labour Organisation Should Ask EPO Staff About the Surge in Cases, Not Just EPO Management, Which Chronically Lies
  • 03.20.16 European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
  • 03.25.16 Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE’s Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”
  • 03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
  • 04.07.16 On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives ‘Gifts’
  • 04.11.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II
  • 04.12.16 La Iglesia de EPO: ¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos?– Parte II
  • 04.16.16 Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
  • 05.01.16 The European Patent Office Still Silently Abusive, Will Pay $15,000 in Compensation to Female Worker After Belated ILO Judgment
  • 05.02.16 ES: La Oficina Europea de Patentes Todavía Sigilósamente Abusiva, Pagará $15,000 en Compensasió a Trabajadora Tras un Tardío Fallo de la ILO
  • 05.30.16 Links 30/5/2016: Linux 4.7 RC1, Best Linux Distros
  • 06.07.16 Links 7/6/2016: Manjaro Linux 16.06, Firefox 47.0
  • 06.10.16 The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
  • 06.13.16 Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
  • 06.20.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
  • 07.18.16 Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials
  • 07.18.16 Links 18/7/2016: Vista 10 a Failure, FreeType 2.7
  • 07.28.16 EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • 07.30.16 Actions by Team Battistelli Against the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the Role Played by Željko Topić in Crushing Opposition
  • 07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
  • 08.04.16 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
  • 08.16.16 That Time When the Administrative Council Helped Battistelli Crush Oversight (Audit Committee) and What ILO Said About It a Month Ago
  • 08.18.16 Turkey Subjected to the European Patent Convention (EPC) But Benoît Battistelli is Not?
  • 08.19.16 The Cost/Toll of the ‘New’ EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
  • 08.29.16 Links 29/8/2016: Linux 4.8 RC4, Maru OS Source Code
  • 09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
  • 09.12.16 Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
  • 11.04.16 In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
  • 11.05.16 EPO President Benoît Hernandez About the Social Atmosphere and Life’s Great Joys
  • 11.13.16 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
  • 11.15.16 Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO
  • 11.19.16 Links 19/11/2016: KDE Applications 16.12 Beta, Zorin OS 12
  • 11.20.16 Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly ‘Absorbed’)
  • 11.23.16 Employees of European Patent Office Take Action Against Culture of Fear
  • 11.24.16 Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections
  • 11.29.16 ILOAT Decisions: Upcoming Publication of Two EPO Cases (Abuse Against Staff)
  • 11.29.16 The International Labour Organisation Once Again Proves Useless for Labour of the EPO
  • 12.01.16 Two ILO Decisions on EPO Cases Are Released, at Least One Judgment is Considered Good for Staff
  • 12.01.16 The Rule of Law and Justice Don’t Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • 12.02.16 Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli’s EPO
  • 12.03.16 More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action
  • 12.05.16 Rumour: EPO in Berlin the Next Casualty of Battistelli’s ‘Reform’ (Organisational Suicide Plan)
  • 12.05.16 Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk ‘Justice’ in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO
  • 12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
  • 12.06.16 Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.06.16 EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These
  • 12.08.16 British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 12.08.16 Links 8/12/2016: Korora GNU/Linux 25, SparkyLinux 4.5.1
  • 12.12.16 Caricature: The European Patent Office Finds Quick Fix for ILO
  • 12.13.16 EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
  • 12.14.16 Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO
  • 12.14.16 EPO Protest Begins and ILO Staff Union Expresses Support for EPO Staff
  • 12.16.16 Why EPO Staff is Up in Arms
  • 12.19.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
  • 12.27.16 2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO ‘Reform’ Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation
  • 01.01.17 No Separation of Powers or Justice at the EPO: Reign of Terror by Battistelli Explained in Letter to the Administrative Council
  • 01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.24.17 The EPO’s Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”
  • 01.30.17 Everything Benoît Battistelli Does Without Staff Consultation is Without Merit, More So Amid Union-Busting Catastrophe
  • 01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
  • 02.01.17 Links 1/2/2017: LibreOffice 5.3 Officially Released
  • 02.02.17 International Labour Organisation to Issue More Judgments on ‘Above the Law’ European Patent Office Next Week
  • 02.03.17 Links 3/2/2017: New Stable/LTS Linux Releases, Olimex DIY Laptop Kit Launches
  • 02.06.17 Links 6/2/2017: Linux 4.10 RC7, Next Debian Release ‘Frozen’
  • 02.07.17 Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
  • 02.08.17 The News the EPO is Distracting From: No Justice for EPO Workers at ILO (Necessitating Immediate Removal of Immunity)
  • 02.09.17 Video: 123rd Session of ILO Tribunal Judgments Session Talks About EPO
  • 02.15.17 Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
  • 02.16.17 EPO Staff Representatives to Escalate Complaint About Severe Injustices to the EPO’s Secretive Board 28
  • 02.17.17 Our Assessment: EPO Wants a Lot of Low-Quality Patents and Low-Paid Staff With UPC (Prosecution Galore)
  • 02.20.17 Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
  • 02.21.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part I: Motivation for New Series of Articles
  • 02.27.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VIII: When Governed by Criminals, Truth-Tellers Are Cast as Criminals and Criminals as Justice Deliverers
  • 03.06.17 ILO: “EPO Threaten(s) the Ability of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO to Serve All Other Organizations”
  • 03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
  • 03.08.17 Latest EPO ‘Results’ Should be Grounds for Immediate Dismissal of Battistelli Rather Than Celebrations
  • 03.08.17 The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
  • 03.14.17 EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
  • 03.17.17 The EPO’s Abuses and Claims of Immunity From Prosecution Increasingly Fracture the Dutch Establishment
  • 03.20.17 Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
  • 03.22.17 The EPO is Lying to Its Own Staff About ILO and Endless (Over 2 Years) EPO Mistrials
  • 03.22.17 EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
  • 03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
  • 03.25.17 Judge and Justice Bashing in the United States, EPC Bashing at the EPO
  • 03.26.17 Even the EPO’s Administrative Council No Longer Trusts Its Chairman, Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ Jesper Kongstad
  • 03.26.17 Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
  • 03.30.17 EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building
  • 04.02.17 Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
  • 04.23.17 EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO’s Decision
  • 04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
  • 05.04.17 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
  • 05.07.17 ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
  • 05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
  • 05.20.17 EPO: Can the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Still Save It?
  • 05.21.17 Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised
  • 05.21.17 New Documents Help Demonstrate That ILO Delivers Institutional Injustice to EPO Employees and Cushions Team Battistelli
  • 05.22.17 Martijn van Dam is Wrong to Believe That Battistelli’s Abuses Are Somehow Acceptable or Tolerable Because His Term is Possibly Ending
  • 05.27.17 Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It
  • 06.01.17 Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff
  • 06.21.17 The Administrative Tribunal of ILO Will Deliver EPO Judgments in Six Days
  • 06.23.17 Primer to the Crisis and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 06.25.17 Systemic Injustice at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Causes Serious Harm to Complainants’ Health, Including EPO Complainants
  • 06.28.17 Letter Warns of “Reform Marathon” a Few Days Before Benoît Battistelli’s Job is Offered to Someone Else
  • 06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
  • 07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
  • 07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
  • 07.06.17 Elżbieta Bieńkowska Cares More About the Unitary Patent Coup D’état (Which She Encourages) Than She Cares About the Rule of Law and People’s Lives
  • 07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
  • 07.18.17 New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
  • 07.26.17 Lufthansa Leaks? Nokia Leaks? Prepare for Further Digging Into EPO Scandals
  • 08.08.17 EPO Already Thinks It’s the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
  • 08.17.17 Corruption at the European Patent Office and Systematic Bullying That Leads People to Suicide/Bankruptcy
  • 08.22.17 Links 22/8/2017: Linux 4.13 RC6, Mesa 17.1.7, Wine 2.15, Android O
  • 08.27.17 How Much Longer Can Guy Ryder and Claude Rouiller Ignore Abuses and Cement Injustice at the EPO?
  • 09.07.17 SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses
  • 09.13.17 EPO Gets Together With Patent Radicals to Promote Software Patents
  • 09.23.17 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
  • 09.28.17 The Effects of ILO and the EPO on Disability
  • 10.22.17 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
  • 10.22.17 The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President
  • 10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
  • 10.30.17 Belgium’s Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
  • 10.31.17 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
  • 11.20.17 Team Battistelli’s Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
  • 11.30.17 ILO is About to Publish “Exceptional” Decisions, Most of Them Regarding the EPO
  • 12.05.17 The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
  • 12.06.17 Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
  • 12.07.17 Meanwhile in Eponia, Tyrant Battistelli Must be Seeking Advice on How to Refuse to Obey Court’s Orders (Again)
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
  • 12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
  • 12.07.17 ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst’s Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)
  • 12.07.17 International Labour Organisation/ILOAT for UPC Yet Another Problem for Unitary Patent-Style Regime
  • 12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
  • 12.08.17 European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO’s Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
  • 12.08.17 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
  • 12.08.17 SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
  • 12.09.17 Raw: Three Years for ‘Justice’ (to be Disregarded by Benoît Battistelli) at ILO and Over a Decade at the EPO
  • 12.11.17 Bristows is Being Hammered With Negative Comments For Its Unitary Patent (UPC) Lies
  • 12.11.17 Judge Corcoran Turns to His Government for Help and EPO ‘House Ban’ is Finally Lifted
  • 12.12.17 Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli’s Control in DG1
  • 12.12.17 Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO
  • 12.12.17 The European Patent Organisation Refrains (For Nearly a Week) From Speaking About Battistelli’s Abuses as Judged by ILO Tribunal
  • 12.12.17 Team UPC’s Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending
  • 12.13.17 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.13.17 Judge Corcoran Got His User ID/Desk Back (as ILO Asked), But Cannot Perform Actual Work
  • 12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
  • 12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
  • 12.18.17 Battistelli Feels as Though He’s Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)
  • 12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
  • 12.19.17 Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
  • 12.21.17 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
  • 12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
  • 12.23.17 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Was Warned 4 Years Ago About “Governance and Overall Reputation of the Organisation.”
  • 12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
  • 12.29.17 Raw: Central Staff Committee of the EPO Warns the Organisation That It Votes in Favour of Breaching Fundamental Rights
  • 12.29.17 Raw: Željko Topić Tries to Defend an Illegal Suppression of Labour Rights
  • 12.30.17 Raw: Battistelli Uses External Lawyers to Bully Staff That Complains (Like He Repeatedly Did Against Techrights)
  • 12.31.17 Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
  • 01.01.18 Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
  • 01.01.18 Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does
  • 01.05.18 The EPO’s Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
  • 01.11.18 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
  • 01.13.18 Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO’s Tribunal
  • 01.14.18 European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them
  • 01.23.18 Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering
  • 01.23.18 Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to ‘Exile’
  • 01.25.18 The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
  • 01.25.18 Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
  • 01.30.18 ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters
  • 01.30.18 The EPO’s Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
  • 01.30.18 The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
  • 01.31.18 Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO’s Bizarre Financial Behaviour
  • 01.31.18 Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
  • 02.15.18 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
  • 02.21.18 EPO’s Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
  • 02.22.18 Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
  • 02.23.18 EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
  • 03.13.18 Willy Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures
  • 03.22.18 The Federation of International Civil Servants’ Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
  • 03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
  • 04.01.18 António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead
  • 04.17.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It’s the Management’s Fault
  • 05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
  • 05.04.18 From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy’s Thug at the EPO
  • 05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
  • 05.10.18 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
  • 05.10.18 Report on the (Mal)Functioning of the ILOAT From the 332nd Session of the ILO Governing Body
  • 05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
  • 05.15.18 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
  • 05.19.18 Aurélien Pétiaud’s ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
  • 06.03.18 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Officials Who Favour Technology Over Law Firms and This Time Zoe Lofgren is the Target
  • 06.12.18 Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
  • 06.20.18 EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
  • 06.21.18 Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus ‘Case’ Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
  • 06.24.18 The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
  • 06.25.18 The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using ‘Toxic’ EPO Budget)
  • 06.26.18 Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT (Updated)
  • 06.26.18 This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)
  • 06.27.18 SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday’s ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon
  • 06.28.18 President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
  • 06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
  • 06.29.18 Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
  • 06.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
  • 07.01.18 The EPO’s Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
  • 07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
  • 07.04.18 Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees’)
  • 07.06.18 German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
  • 07.06.18 Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
  • 07.07.18 One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
  • 07.08.18 Battistelli’s ‘Legacy’ Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”
  • 07.13.18 Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
  • 07.14.18 EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?
  • 07.15.18 Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) ‘Intercepted’ Under António Campinos
  • 07.26.18 António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
  • 07.27.18 Correspondence With Dražen Petrović Reveals That ILO-AT is Indeed an Employer’s Court, Favouring EPO Management Over EPO Staff
  • 07.27.18 Reader’s Post: How the EPO Silently Halves Salaries of Senior EPO Staff (or Gets Rid of Them)
  • 08.02.18 The EPO’s Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 08.16.18 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
  • 08.25.18 In Koch v EPO, a Rare Glimpse at Tricks the EPO Employs at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • 09.24.18 Links 24/9/2018: Linux 4.19 RC5 From Greg Kroah-Hartman, OpenShot 2.4.3 Released
  • 10.23.18 Links 23/10/2018: Mesa 18.3 Planned, RISC OS Adopts Apache Licence, Mozilla Firefox 63.0 Available
  • 10.25.18 António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
  • 11.07.18 Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli
  • 11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
  • 11.13.18 The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
  • 11.14.18 USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
  • 11.24.18 António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change
  • 11.27.18 127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos
  • 12.01.18 “ILO Gave the EPO Medical Committee a Good Slapping”
  • 12.12.18 EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
  • 01.10.19 EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
  • 01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
  • 01.31.19 President Campinos Maintains Battistelli’s Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
  • 05.01.19 Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO
  • 05.02.19 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System